IDLE WORSHIP 2025 was a tongue-in-cheek subversion of Calgary’s car-obsessed culture, responding to the prevalence of personal vehicles by reclaiming these paved places for people, art, and ideas. A convoy of subversive creativity, IDLE WORSHIP traversed our civic landscape as so many commuters do daily ~ but more subversive intentions. Pithy and playful, IDLE WORSHIP is equal parts community project, commentary, and intervention in plain sight.
Tag: Canadian Art
GATHER BY FIRE
A backyard ritual sculpture burn (for Matthew Mark)
Participants:
Audrey Lane Cockett
Caitlind r.c. Brown
Daniel Barossa
Dale Meyer, Veronica Murphy, and Sadie
Eric Heitmann
Joanne MacDonald
Keith Rodger
Wayne Garrett
+ a Christmas Tree contribution from Matthew Waddell & Laura Anzola
FEASTING
Episode 34 of EARS HAVE EYES
FEASTING: delicious sounds for hungry ears
ARTISTS:
Alëna Korolëva
Berk Yağlı
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Brigitte Haas
Clare Duckett
Evamaria Müller & Thomas Catlaw
Stijn Demeulenaere
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
HEAT SEEKING
Week 6 of 7: a hide & seek slow dance
PARTICIPANTS:
Clare Duckett
Desiree Nault
Eric Heitmann
Rebecca Reid
Ryan Bourne
Wayne Garrett
Caitlind Brown
& many dancers!
TIMBER
Week 5 of 7: a collaborative interlocking lumber sculpture
PARTICIPANTS:
Eric Heitmann
Ivan Ostapenko
Caitlind Brown
Wayne Garrett
GATHER BY FIRE at EMPIRE OF DIRT
Week 2 of 7: a residency & ritual sculpture burn on Arrow Mountain
Participants:
Elaine Weryshko
Jim Wallis
Larry McDowell
Lisa Benschop
Marnie Temple
Nikki Emerson
Palmer Olson
Veronica Verkley
Wayne Garrett
Caitlind r.c. Brown
EARS HAVE EYES Live!
Week 3 of 7 of the Hibernation Project 2024!
Episode 25 & 26 of EARS HAVE EYES
EARS HAVE EYES: a listening party for sound art on the radio – LIVE!
Sound Artists:
Audrey Lane Cockett
Chris Dadge
Christina Milinusic
Hermitess (Jennifer Crighton)
Keith Rodger
NUM (Milad Bagheri & Maryam Sirvan)
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
TOBOGGAPALOOZA
Week 1 of 7: build-your-own-toboggans!
Participants:
Aiden Tan
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Blake O’Brien
Brad Hawkins
Caitlind Brown
Carter & Sasha White
Chad & Edward Saunders
Clare Duckett
Foon Yap
Jeremy, Nelize, Arlo & Elliot Gignoux
Mike Tan
Rory Allen
Wayne Garrett
and more!
Hibernation 2024 Themes!
We’re delighted to share the themes of our 6th Annual Hibernation Project! We’re beginning with a feast and ending with a LIVE public access TV broadcast, and covering pretty much everything in between. This year features a Hibernation-in-Residence at cSPACE Eau Claire, and an offsite Fire Residency at Empire of Dirt in Creston, BC! We hope you’ll join us for another year of experiments, snowy day projects, and the dreams of we who wake to sleep.
SOUND DEATH (Part 2)
Episode 18 of EARS HAVE EYES
SOUND DEATH: endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare
Sound Artists:
Beni Brachtel
Domenico De Simone
Fabian Lanzmaier
Jacob Kirkegaard
Mishka Henner
Tomer Baruch
Una Walker
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
RADIANT WAVES
Episode 16 of EARS HAVE EYES
RADIANT WAVES: resonating and shiny; too bright to see
Sound Artists:
Benoit Bories
Eryk Salvaggio
Jon Middleton
Magda Lambropoulou
Ryan Pratt
Serge Bulat
Zoundskaap
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
GATHER BY FIRE
Week 6 of 6: a backyard ritual sculpture burn (for Matthew Mark)
Participants:
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Clare Duckett
Daniel Barossa
Eric Heitmann
Hannah Doerksen & Palmer Olson
Jane Grace
Jennifer Bourree-Lebouthillier
Joanne & Jonathan MacDonald
Tiff Polancec
Wayne Garrett
Caitlind Brown
HOMEBODIES
Week 4 of 6: digital performances from the comfort of your own home(body)
Participants:
Ana Phylactic (Kiki Barua)
Audrey Lane Cockett
Becca McDonald
Clare M. Duckett & Eeeeeernie!
Ian Ward
Jonathan Dowdall
Monica Ila & her Yeti!
Phantom Orchid
Ryan Bourne & Rebecca Reid
Salome Says (Toni Hiatt)
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Theme by Audrey Lane Cockett
TOBOGGAPALOOZA
Week 1 of 6: return of build-your-own-toboggans!
Participants:
Aiden & Mike Tan
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Blake O’Brien
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Daniel & Maggie Schaefer
Maggy & Ellen Close
Logan
Sarah VS & Family
Vanessa Porteous & Friends
Themes of Hibernation 2023!
The Hibernation Project is back!!!!!! Because we’ve been gradually spreading our events out over the course of the entire year, we have a short and sweet pop of wintertime magic for you this year! It’s gonna be a load of fun, collaboration, and creative satisfaction, so we hope you’ll join us – as an artist or attendee!
Check out all our themes in this handy blog post.
IDLE WORSHIP: mobile exhibition
In late September, 8 artist-driven cars became moving micro-galleries, welcoming visitors to experience a series of strange, immersive, whimsical, playful, absurd, and satirical artworks – each tucked inside its own automobile. Traveling in a law-abiding motorcade, IDLE WORSHIP responded to Alberta’s car-centric culture in a slow rally from familiar place to place – traversing the Calgary landscape as so many commuters do daily, but with an utterly different intention. Pithy and playful, IDLE WORSHIP was equal parts community project, commentary, and intervention in plain sight.
IDLE WORSHIP
IDLE WORSHIP is a mobile exhibition of art and performance in cars touring across the parking lots of the greater Calgary / Mohkinstsis area on Sept 24 and 25, 2022. Intended to subvert the car-centric culture of Alberta and utilize the “non-site site” of the car interior, IDLE WORSHIP is part community project, commentary, and intervention in plain sight.
IDLE WORSHIP is a spinoff of The Hibernation Project.
JOURNEY
Our sound art radio program, EARS HAVE EYES, will air monthly for the rest of 2022!
Episode 4 of EARS HAVE EYES, JOURNEY: sound walks, travel, and traversing the land
Sound Artists:
Calum Robertson
Curved Walls
D. C. Gale
Eduardo Gama
Edzi’u
Kathleen Moors
Lauren Wong
Tyler Stewart
WalkingLab
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett.
All the Thank Yous!
We’ve reached the end of The Hibernation Project 2022! Thank you to the artists and participants who joined us on this wild adventure! This year, we once again navigated the shifting waters of a global pandemic to facilitate 11 Hibernation Project events spanning digital space, tobogganing hills, radio waves, hockey rinks, community centres, and our…
GATHER BY FIRE
Week 11 of 11: a backyard ritual sculpture burn
Artworks by Elaine Weryshko, Jamie Tognazzini, Kamila Eltassi, Kat Dornian, Sarah Smalik, Wayne Garrett, and Caitlind Brown, featuring the unveiling of Maggie Schaefer’s SNOWDOWN Time-Capsule and an impromptu drag performance by Audrey Lane Cockett.
THE HIBERNATION PROJECT 